RJ Talbot

As Senior Lecturer in Performance in the School of Arts & Media, University of Salford, Dr Richard Talbot’s research activities are predominantly practice-based, and involve interdisciplinary research collaborations with arts and health practitioners. He has worked with the university's Salford Institute for Dementia, leading workshops and symposia on performance, comedy and laughter, and has published on virtual and intermedial Clowning for older people with Dr Claire Dormann. He has also published articles on Ridiculusmus' comic devising process in Studies in Theatre & Performance, Vol. 24, Issue 2 (2014) and on clowning in Comedy Studies, Vol. 5, Issue1 (2014) and has collaborated with Ridiculusmus on several productions over the last 10 years, including their award-winning trilogy on mental health conditions and therapies 'Dialogue As The Embodiment of Love'. He is also co-Artistic Director of Triangle Theatre, winning the Museum & Heritage Education award in 2005 and creating The Clown Who Lost His Memory (2006-08), a large-scale digital archival project, recently reissued online. He was Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence at Roehampton University in 2013, working on an inter-generational sports and health project which he has picked up again in recent research on sporty banter in amateur triathlon clubs .